The photo is a three-shot pano captured with a Sony A6500 mirrorless camera and a Sony FE 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens at 209mm, f/10, 1/500 second, ISO 320. He said the biggest challenge with photographing something as dramatically awesome as an Alaskan landscape is to isolate a single composition in a vast wilderness.

But even Biswal admits that a photographer can only do so much.

“The gorgeous view is more soothing to the eye in person than seeing it in picture,” he notes. You can see more of Biswal’s work at facebook.com/icbeaute.